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WordPress 5 Cookbook

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Book Image

WordPress 5 Cookbook

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By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress has been the most popular content management system (CMS) for many years and is now powering over 30% of all websites globally. With the demand for WordPress development and skilled developers ever-increasing, now is the best time to learn WordPress inside out. This book starts with simple recipes for configuring WordPress and managing basic platform features. You’ll then move on to explore how to install and customize WordPress plugins, widgets, and themes. The next few chapters cover recipes for content and user-management-related topics such as customizing the content display, working with content types, using the new Gutenberg editor, and customizing editorial workflow for building advanced blogs. As you advance, you’ll learn how to use WordPress as an application framework as well as a platform for building e-commerce sites. This WordPress book will also help you optimize your site to maximize visibility on search engines, add interactivity, and build a user community to make the site profitable. Finally, you’ll learn how to maintain a WordPress site smoothly while taking precautions against possible security threats. By the end of the book, you’ll have the tools and skills required to build and maintain modern WordPress websites with the latest technologies and be able to find quick solutions to common WordPress problems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Highlighting the search term in the search results

WordPress search is a basic search feature that searches posts, pages, and custom post types. The search results are displayed in a similar way to an archive page with a title and content. Once the search is completed, the user will have to look for the section that contains the search term in the results. This is unnecessary overhead for the user that wastes time. In an ideal implementation, the user should be able to see the searched word within the results.

We can implement this to improve usability by highlighting the search term within search results. The default search doesn't provide such a feature, and hence we need a custom implementation.

In this recipe, we are going to use a plugin from the WordPress plugin repository to highlight the search terms in the search results.

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